initiatives, he was saying we got to get this economy growing again. energy and all of the above approach is what i will use. bringing down the cost of gasoline, bringing down energy costs, is going to drive our economic expansion and job creation. he knew going into that, this was a political calculation, that there is dissatisfaction in the african-american community that after three and a half years, there is an unemployment rate of about 14% in the african-american community, and blaming it on bush is getting old, even in the african-american community. and look, there s not going to be a sea change in the african-american vote in november, but if he can go from mccain s 4% to 8% or to bush s
because the affordable health care act was about affordable health care, not about obamacare. so the tone deafness is what s more revealing here than anything he prescribed. emanuel cleaver was on msnbc on the thomas roberts hour talking about that being someone on the speech writing team did not understand how that would play with the audience. david corn, we talk about sort of the political reality here. was the naacp speech for an african-american audience or for those independents who just want to see this guy extending an olive branch to the minority community? the people i know in the romney campaign are not fools. i don t think they can get they believe they can get to 10%, 8%, 7% of the african-american vote. i would give him an a-plus for the speech today, only because he did not say some of my best friends are african-american nascar owners. but the speech was really about showing that he s not severely
surrogate to the black community. he also did the national association of black journalists conference. first of all, barack obama will still get 95% of the black vote. they understand that. they know that. the black community in terms of the polling is still solidly behind the president. i think that maybe they feel like they can kind of be a little bit more flexible about having him have to be the face of it. they re letting joe biden do it. i don t know how that will resonate with african-americans but i don t think it will hurt him at the polls. fred, i want to talk about your book. we have mentioned it, you had an op-ed in the washington post which we discussed and we talk about sort of the impact of the president on race relations in america and concerns among the african-american community which has been disproportionately affected by the economic downturn. you write obama s race neutral campaign strategy has spilled over to his approach to governing. the strategy has exacte
gab, and they can win women back, they will not get african-american or latino. look at northern virginia, suburbs around philly. one of the most significant problem social security the president has double digit leads among women. he up by 10 and 12 in ohio. that is the challenge their trying to break. one more thing i want to take these states as a whole. the scary thing about these look, i put these three here because florida was the be all end all. how did tim russet, and then he said ohio, and listen, i think it s virginia. you agree? sure. the president can win without ohio and florida. it is hard for him there s a way to get there without that s what i want to spend
there, or are you alone? reporter: i am alone except for the crew and some other reporters. i had to look around. we re sort of in a bubble. you know how that is, but, where do we start, ali? oh my gosh. there is so much to talk about in this case. when you talk about propofol. we didn t know anything about propofol before michael jackson. some people get it when you go into procedures but you didn t know the name of it. as you said, opening statements, starting about 8:45 local time, which is 11:45 eastern. that s when the judge will come in, give the jury instructions, about 15 minutes. after that, the arguments are expected to start in this case. the prosecution and from the defense. that are ge on for a bit. 10:15, they ll take a little breather. after that, ali, they re going to come back, continued with the arguments. we don t expect we don t expect doesn t always go as planned, we don t expect the first witness to start testifying until a little later on this aft